US Patent Issued to Axial Medical Printing on June 17 for "Method for generating a 3D printable model of a patient specific anatomy" (British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,333,652, issued on June 17, was assigned to Axial Medical Printing Ltd. (Belfast, Great Britain).

"Method for generating a 3D printable model of a patient specific anatomy" was invented by Daniel Crawford (Belfast, Great Britain), Catherine Coomber (Belfast, Great Britain) and Niall Haslam (Belfast, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer implemented method for generating a 3D printable model of a patient specific anatomic feature from 2D medical images is provided. A 3D image is automatically generated from a set of 2D medical images. A machine learning based image segmentation technique is used to segment the generated ...